The Mindboggling Barriers That Colleges Create – and That End Up Hurting Their Own Students
Colleges and universities “make decisions that seem, on the face
of it, reasonable, but in effect actually end up restricting
opportunities for students,” said William Moses, managing
director of education at the Kresge Foundation, which funds
organizations that coach low-income and first-generation students
through the complexities of earning degrees.
At community colleges, for instance, “A lot of people actually
have maybe 75, 80 credits and could get an associate’s degree,
but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way,
like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the
graduation fee,” said Moses. “Lots of these trivial things that
occur.”